they dont care about folding,,, i mean.......... is this a serious question?

Sure they do and folding is significant, but these are graphics cards. Their main goal will be to improve the experience of gamers and such. Can you imagine that on the box? "Radeon HD ****, capable of ** PPD!"

It isn't AMD not caring or even their problem. It is the folding client itself not being optimized for Stream but is for Cuda, or much less optimized at least. Rest assured, if they would take the time to make a AMD only, or heavily favored client, we would be seeing the same lopsided graph, only the brands reversed. AMD's chips have the hardware capability to equal and most likely surpass Nvidia in folding(at least when comparing the 5xxx to 4xx in DP performance. Not sure on 6xxx vs. 5xx), the software is what is lacking.Edited by Strat79 - 6/4/11 at 11:07pm

It isn't AMD not caring or even their problem. It is the folding client itself not being optimized for Stream but is for Cuda, or much less optimized at least. Rest assured, if they would take the time to make a AMD only, or heavily favored client, we would be seeing the same lopsided graph, only the brands reversed. AMD's chips have the hardware capability to equal and most likely surpass Nvidia in folding(at least when comparing the 5xxx to 4xx in DP performance. Not sure on 6xxx vs. 5xx), the software is what is lacking.

QFT ^

Has nothing to do with the cards and or AMD themselves. It's the software optimization.